I recently got a new oven and when I went to disconnect the old one, I turned off the power for the house and then when I opened the box the wall, noticed the neutral connection was melted. (see image below).
It has been wired this way since the house was built about 20 years ago, the oven and hob are the original ones, so I'm suspecting one of them was faulty. The melted connecter said 500V on the back of it.
I've cut off the melted connector, replaced it with a 30A/400V one, and have only wired in the new oven. Given the oven is on a 30A circuit breaker, this to me seems sensible.
Is it common practice to wire the oven and hob into the same connector as was the case? I can survive without a hob easily enough for a few weeks, but I'd be wary of wiring in a new hob to this - assuming I'd need a connector with a higher voltage rating if the hob went on it too? Which will be why I will get a proper sparky into to do it, when I get round to picking up a new hob.
The wiring, the wires at the bottom were the old oven and the grey cable was from the hob.
Thanks for any input.
It has been wired this way since the house was built about 20 years ago, the oven and hob are the original ones, so I'm suspecting one of them was faulty. The melted connecter said 500V on the back of it.
I've cut off the melted connector, replaced it with a 30A/400V one, and have only wired in the new oven. Given the oven is on a 30A circuit breaker, this to me seems sensible.
Is it common practice to wire the oven and hob into the same connector as was the case? I can survive without a hob easily enough for a few weeks, but I'd be wary of wiring in a new hob to this - assuming I'd need a connector with a higher voltage rating if the hob went on it too? Which will be why I will get a proper sparky into to do it, when I get round to picking up a new hob.
The wiring, the wires at the bottom were the old oven and the grey cable was from the hob.
Thanks for any input.